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How an AI-powered lion became a teaching tool

The mascot for King’s College London helped Andrés Gvirtz to teach a class, with a little help from generative artificial intelligence.
  1. Andrés Gvirtz

    1. Andrés Gvirtz is an assistant professor of marketing technology and innovation at King’s College London.

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Andrés Gvirtz stands and Reggie the Lion mascot sits in an otherwise empty college lecture hall at King's College London.

Andrés Gvirtz with King’s College London’s mascot, Reggie the Lion. Credit: Julius Juette, Joel Lo Ribeiro, Vicky Young

Reggie the Lion, the beloved mascot of King’s College London (KCL), turns 100 this month, and earlier this year he became the muse for my first foray into using artificial intelligence (AI) in the classroom.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-04152-6

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